Introducing: The Three Amigos!

Affectionately dubbed this by my surrofriend (I hate calling her "our surrogate" because she is really more like a sister to me!) I wanted to post this Wednesday but as you can probably imagine if you have gone through IVF or surrogacy, we were pretty overwhelmed over here.. I have of course been consulting Dr. Google as well as looking at my embryos from my first FET (29 yo eggs!) and I must say to me, they kinda look JUST ALIKE! Which to me is a good thing! I mean the quality back then was pretty damn good and I KNOW deep down had the psycho done what she was contracted to do, we wouldn't be doing another FET via surrogacy right now, but I digress... So Here are the embies from our first FET I don't know why I only got a picture of 3 because we actually transferred 4!

and here are the ones from Wednesday:

What do you guys think??? Purdy damn close right?? We are praying and hoping and wishing and finger crossing that at LEAST one of them sticks around for the next 8 months or so!

Transfer Completed!

We are officially in the TWO WEEK WAIT!! We had THREE Grade A embryos transferred to my sweet friend! They were (2) 8cells and (1) 7cell! We are really excited! Our Beta is in 12 days on 6/20.. We are on team POAS so we will definitely be squinting and checking those HPT's shortly!! I can't believe after this long journey we have made it to transfer!! Thank you to everyone who is always commenting and emailing me with their support, it means the world to me... Stay tuned, this journey is JUST starting!!

Tomorrow: You're Only A Day Away!

Tomorrow at NOON, two of our embryos will be safe and sound in my amazing friend's uterus. We are unbelievably excited AND SUPER DUPER NERVOUS!! So many emotions going on right now.. Lots of nervousness, excitement but some sadness too.. Sad that I can't carry my own child and experience a pregnancy with my husband.. Also brings up sad feelings of our many bad surrogacy matches and of course our terrible frozen embryo transfer with the worst surrogate in the world.. I KNOW that this time will be different and that my friend wants this for us as much as we want it for ourselves and that makes all of this SO much easier.. BUT nevertheless the sadness is there, under the surface of the happiness.. We have so many hopes and dreams rolled up into this baby that we can't see yet or see it's face, but it's so VERY real to us.. We already love it and we pray that tomorrow is the day that starts towards the beginning of it's new life with us in 8.5 short months! So yes i am a little sad about the past, but I am VERY VERY HAPPY more than anything!! We can't wait for tomorrow! I think I will watch Annie tonight in the "FAB FIVE's" honor! (MY friend dubbed my 5 embryos the Fab Five, how cute right?!) OK will update tomorrow after I have details!

THE THAW!!!

All FIVE embryos survived the thawing process!! WOOHOOO! So happy with this news! Now they are being cultured in the lab for 2 more days and the best 2-3 (but probably 2) will be transferred on Wednesday some time.. I had a great talk with the embryologist, love him! They are doing assisted hatching as well. The reasoning behind doing day 3 is I don't want to risk losing all of our embryos trying to push for a blast transfer.. I asked the embryologist if he ever had a case where they checked them on day 3 and they looked good and decided to go to day 5 and there was nothing left, he got quiet and said "yes, that has happened and we are always surprised and don't know why it does happen" I said I don't want to be in that group, that's my fear! I thought it was his choice of day 3 or 5, but he said it was mine and if that's what I wanted we would do day 3, so that's what we are doing! So in TWO DAYS my embryos will be snuggled safe in my wonderful friends uterus!! Bring on the HPTS! OK until Wednesday folks!

LINING CHECK: CHECK!

Lining check was today! J's lining was 8.5mm TRIPLE LINED (YUP, That's good!)
We are 5 days out from transfer, so it will fluff up a bit more by Wednesday! I am about 95% sure that is transfer day!! I told the nurse today that is my preference, no need to go to day 5 if we don't have to, or just for "GP".. Umm, no thanks! So I am praying we have 2-3 definite overachievers on Wednesday and we can definitely go to transfer then.. Next up: THE THAW!!! Monday the "kids" come out of hibernation and hopefully kick start into growing and dividing! And for those of you who are wondering, we are TOTALLY POAS!! We have about a million (OK, more like 50!) and we plan on testing until BFP or beta day, whichever comes first! But that's jumping the gun a bit, we have to get to THE THAW!! (I like saying that, I say it like Jim Carey said "THE CLAAW" in Liar, Liar) Til Monday my peeps!